About Rene de la Cruz

René Juan de la Cruz-Napoli is a contemporary artist and designer based in Brooklyn, known for his video art and optical graphics.

His current on-going multimedia art project is named “PLAY NYC”.  By enhancing the ordinary into extraordinary visual experiences, his live manipulated video art broadcasts to the people’s minds what catches his eye and the ways his imagination reacts, when he navigates NYC.  Lately this concept has evolved into the art of immediacy during his daily subway commuting using his iPhone creating optical graphics and manipulations of pictures that express his point of view of the city.  His latest multimedia artistic work has been exhibited at The (S) Files, El Museo del Barrio’s Biennale, Manhattan 2011-12 and is currently part of a traveling collective show called “Imago Mundi” from the Fondazione Benetton of Treviso.                                        

"Perfect Imperfections" is a convergent series of digital art designed with vector based "Illustrator" software, and then printed by hand.  It is when silkscreen printed that these pieces acquire a new dimension of motion optical illusions. The way ink feels to the eye is totally different from the computer monitor screen and from glicee high resolution printing. It is even better yet when colors overlap, as texture and transparencies are created.